Smallish Post 11

If you were to publish a book today, it would remain under copyright for another hundred and twenty years (or somewhere in that ballpark). When copy right was originally invented, the idea was to protect the works and ideas of innovators and visionaries while encouraging others to be equally innovative and visionary. The laws we see don’t reflect that. The laws we see tell a tail of Lucas Film and The Tolkien Estate milking their cash cows as long as they can push legislation to allow. Protecting ideas is important. Protecting works is important. Incentivizing mega corporations to keep barfing up the same ideas over and over, shoot down actual creatives on YouTube and other platforms for dipping their toes too close to the line, and never come up with anything new, creative, or of quality so long as they have Spider Man to keep rebooting is a plague to creativity and paradoxical to the entire reason copyright was invented in the first place.